BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Methylparaben, Skatole, Androstenone

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Substance produced by an organism that elicits a speciic unlearned response in another member of the same species. Male of species id very sensiive to this stuf. When male responds to speciic chemical the antennae open up and are able to detect where the pheromone comes from. Allows moth to follow the sent to ind the female. When messenger binds and causes receptor to change shape. And get a biological response which is the male being atracted to the female. Female moth can atract a amle from miles away w/ small amounts of pheromones. Won"t protect an enire ield of crops. You wait and ime it unil the bugs has arrived. This can keep tract of whether the bugs are actually there or not. Isolate this material had to put 75,000 virgin cockroaches into a blender to isolate it. So sensiive used it to tract soviet spies during cold war.